RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
December 31, 2021 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2021 at 1:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You were asking before what free will is (or is supposed to be) - and now we're wondering about souls - but souls aren't necessary to free will and compatibilists don't assert (or need to assert) a soul.
You also offered the notion that free will was the outcome or effect of programming (in the brain). Well - that's not free will - or at least not the free will that people once wished to assert (and some still do). Free will is the programmer, not the programming. The idea that our decisions are meaningfully unalike the outcome of a set process. A bootstrap paradox.
You also offered the notion that free will was the outcome or effect of programming (in the brain). Well - that's not free will - or at least not the free will that people once wished to assert (and some still do). Free will is the programmer, not the programming. The idea that our decisions are meaningfully unalike the outcome of a set process. A bootstrap paradox.
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